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plitter

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Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 33

Dualhead problems with nvidia-340xx

I'm trying to get the tv to work with my laptop. I've tried with nvidia-settings and xrandr. Here is some output

$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1920x1080     59.94 +  50.00  
LVDS-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 360mm x 200mm
   1920x1080     59.94*+  50.00  
HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 360mm x 200mm
   1920x1080     59.94*+  50.00 
$ xrandr --output LVDS-0 --auto --output HDMI-0 --auto --right-of LVDS-0 --output VGA-0 --off 
$ xrandr --output LVDS-0 --auto --output HDMI-0 --auto --right-of LVDS-0

This is my setup xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Nvidia Card"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
        Option "NoLogo" "true"
        #Option "UseEDID" "false"
        #Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
        # ...
EndSection

I have  GeForce GT 330. My setup worked before the change to nvidia-340xx.

Is there a way to check if there is something wrong with my hdmi port on the laptop? I've tried different kinds of setup, through receiver, directly to tv, different hdmi cables.

Last edited by plitter (2014-11-20 17:06:02)

dawja

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From: New England

Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 30

Re: Dualhead problems with nvidia-340xx

I have the G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] and had problems with the nvidia-340xx driver crashing my system at boot, and not being able to start X. Did you read the news bulletin on the Arch home page about nvidia and the 340xx driver? Anyway I didn't feel like 'testing' it so I purged all nvidia drivers and libraries and installed the open source 'nouveau' driver and then re-installed Xorg-server. Its not as optimal as the nvidia but I just wanted to get things up and running you know?

Last edited by dawja (2014-11-21 14:08:32)